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The FEI Show Jumping World Cup is an annual international competition among the world’s best show jumping horses and riders. The series, created in 1978, today comprises 14 leagues on all continents. The best riders from 132 preliminary competitions qualify for the final. [1] The FEI World Cup was thought up by a Swiss journalist and show ...
Show jumping is a part of a group of English riding equestrian events that also includes eventing, hunters, and equitation. Jumping classes are commonly seen at horse shows throughout the world, including the Olympics. Sometimes shows are limited exclusively to jumpers. Sometimes jumper classes are offered in conjunction with other English ...
Team Jumping. Gem Twist (June 12, 1979 – November 18, 2006) was a 16.3 hands (67 inches, 170 cm) world champion American Thoroughbred show jumping horse registered under the name Icey Twist. [1] Bred by equestrian Frank Chapot, [3] Gem Twist had an incredible career at the Grand Prix level.
Olympic level riders and horses compete for an $8 million purse in a competition that is free for the public to attend World's best show jumping horses trot into desert for high-stakes event Skip ...
Nick Skelton believes that Big Star is the best horse he has ever ridden, thanks to the power of his action, his expansion, and his beating temperament. Interviewed shortly after the victory of the British Show Jumping Team for the 2012 Olympics, Skelton said his horse is "a monster" and further described Big Star as an "amazing" horse. [9]
L. List of Irish Sport Horse show jumpers. Lord of Theizé. Loro Piana TomBoy.
Voyeur is a 2002 Dutch Warmblood gelding by Tolano van’t Riethof out of Goodwill. [1] In 2015, Farrington and Voyeur become the first pair from the U.S. to win the Rolex International Jumping Riders Club Club Rolex Top Ten Final. [2] The pair also won the Longines World Cup in 2015. [3] Voyeur placed first in the Pan American Cup presented by ...
The record for the high jump stands at 2.47 m (8 ft 1 in), and was achieved by Captain Alberto Larraguibel Morales riding Huaso ex-Faithfull, at the Official International Event at Viña del Mar, Chile, on 5 February 1949. Puissance, (from French puissance), [2] is also a word meaning "power". The event has been contested once at the Olympic ...